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| Since I can work only few new DXCC
band countries on the nine HF bands, I had to keep my interest
alive and set new goals. My radio neighbor Thomas, DL7AV, got me interested
in 6 meters, since he devoted most of his radio career to that magic
band. As the current sunspot cycle 23 was still on the incline and
after putting a 6 meter 5 element M² yagi on top of my highest
tower and purchasing an ICOM IC-706, I started my 6m activity in October
1998. |
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| Six meters reminds me very often of 160m, a challenge
of its own because propagation is not at all or hardly predictable
and you "have to be there" at the right time. Openings last
usually only a few minutes, sometimes only 30 seconds. The band is
often called the Magic Band but it is most of the time the Tragic
Band, when you live in latitudes with rare good openings and when
others, just a hundred kilometers away, work DX and you hear nothing
at all because propagation is so extremely selective. But there are
always unexpected surprises which compensate the frustration of an
empty band with no signals for long periods of times. |
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| I set my goal to achieve DXCC on 6m. In late October
2000, after a very good DX season, I had had worked 26 WAZ zones and
reached my 100th DXCC entity after
a QSO with Nodir, EY8MM. Nodir visited us
in August 2005. The winter 2001/2002 season brought another bunch
of incredible openings to Asia, Central and North America which increased
my country total to 136 DXCC entities and 32 zones. |
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| My current total is 176 DXCC entities and 34 zones
worked. See my 6m QSL Collection. My grid
locator is JN58TE. Two of the most remarkable openings were on March
29, 2002, when we were able to work KH7R,
K6MIO/KH6 and NH7RO
long path in a 40-minute opening and on July 8, 2003 VE7SL
and W7FI in the state of WA (who never QSL'ed). |
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| You have to be there at the right time but in
real life you can't. So I missed at least 15 DXCC entities and quite
a few of them by just a few minutes, for example VQ9, 8Q7, V73AT and
others. |
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| On July 7, 2007 we
installed a new 6m yagi, a 7 element I0JXX design antenna on a
10m boom. QSO #1 was 1A0KM on July 13 as DXCC entity #172. |
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| On July 26, 2007 - at the end of the 2007 Es DX
season - I replaced my IC-706 with a Kenwood TS-2000. |
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| I do not collect grid squares but the following
map shows what I have achieved in the past years (it does not
show what I have missed...): |
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| Fields worked from JN58te |
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| WAZ zones worked. I am sure it is possible to
work all 40 zones from our location with some luck and patience. I
missed zone 2 and 12. NL7Z from zone 1 was audible in our region in
June 2006. We had propagation to ZL (zone 32) on Feb 3, 2002 SP coming
as close as S5, 9A and I1 but it didn't make it over the mountains.
Zone 18 and 19 is a matter of more activity. |
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| US states worked. It's extremely
difficult to work zone 3 and the western U.S. from here. |
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| 1998 |
| 1 |
DL |
| 2 |
TZ |
| 3 |
EA |
| 4 |
ZS |
| 5 |
9H |
| 6 |
9G |
| 7 |
I |
| 8 |
SP |
| 9 |
CT |
| 10 |
C5 |
| 11 |
F |
| 12 |
EA8 |
| 13 |
G |
| 14 |
GW |
| 15 |
UR |
| 16 |
OH |
| 17 |
SM |
| 1999 |
| 18 |
OE |
| 19 |
OK |
| 20 |
SV |
| 21 |
7Q |
| 22 |
5H |
| 23 |
EA6 |
| 24 |
EW |
| 25 |
UA |
| 26 |
S5 |
| 27 |
ES |
| 28 |
OD |
| 29 |
LZ |
| 30 |
YO |
| 31 |
EA9 |
| 32 |
ISØ |
| 33 |
5A |
| 34 |
V5 |
| 35 |
SV5 |
| 36 |
ER |
| 37 |
5B |
| 38 |
LA |
| 39 |
EI |
| 40 |
OY |
| 41 |
LY |
| 42 |
4L |
| 43 |
K |
| 44 |
VE |
| 45 |
GI |
| 46 |
4X |
| 47 |
KP4 |
| 48 |
KP2 |
| 49 |
GM |
| 50 |
OHØ |
| 51 |
YL |
| 52 |
9J |
| 53 |
Z3 |
| 54 |
GJ |
| 55 |
YU |
| 56 |
OM |
| 57 |
3C |
| 58 |
5X |
| 59 |
TR |
| 60 |
PY |
| 61 |
GD |
| 62 |
HB |
| 63 |
UN |
| 64 |
5N |
| 2000 |
| 65 |
Z2 |
| 66 |
LU |
| 67 |
ZA |
| 68 |
CT3 |
| 69 |
SV9 |
| 70 |
OZ |
| 71 |
9A |
| 72 |
ON |
| 73 |
PA |
| 74 |
JY |
| 75 |
ZD7 |
| 76 |
CN |
| 77 |
ZC4 |
| 78 |
T9 |
| 79 |
FH |
| 80 |
TA |
| 81 |
3A |
| 82 |
JW |
| 83 |
HBØ |
| 84 |
5V |
| 85 |
XT |
| 86 |
J2 |
| 87 |
VR2 |
| 88 |
FR |
| 89 |
E3 |
| 90 |
DU |
| 91 |
ST |
| 92 |
ET |
| 93 |
XU |
| 94 |
VK |
| 95 |
FY |
| 96 |
BY |
| 97 |
A4 |
| 98 |
CU |
| 99 |
9M6 |
| 100 |
EY |
| 101 |
9M2 |
| 102 |
ZD8 |
| 103 |
3V |
| 2001 |
| 104 |
D6 |
| 105 |
SU |
| 106 |
ZB2 |
| 107 |
TT |
| 108 |
GU |
| 109 |
EK |
| 110 |
FG |
| 111 |
OJØ |
| 112 |
5R |
| 113 |
HZ |
| 114 |
EX |
| 115 |
3DA |
| 116 |
C9 |
| 117 |
D4 |
| 118 |
JA |
| 119 |
UK |
| 120 |
VU |
| 121 |
HP |
| 122 |
YV |
| 123 |
XW |
| 124 |
YB |
| 125 |
LX |
| 126 |
TG |
| 127 |
XE |
| 128 |
HC8 |
| 129 |
PJ2 |
| 130 |
P4 |
| 131 |
6Y |
| 2002 |
| 132 |
6W |
| 133 |
9Y |
| 134 |
FM |
| 135 |
8P |
| 136 |
JT |
| 137 |
XV |
| 138 |
7P |
| 139 |
KH6 |
| 140 |
D2 |
| 141 |
JX |
| 142 |
FS |
| 143 |
YI |
| 144 |
PYØF |
| 145 |
3X |
| 2003 |
| 146 |
9L |
| 147 |
4U1ITU |
| 148 |
T7 |
| 149 |
A6 |
| 150 |
TF |
| 151 |
C6 |
| 152 |
YA |
| 153 |
SØ |
| 154 |
5T |
| 155 |
A7 |
| 2004 |
| 156 |
7X |
| 157 |
SV/A |
| 158 |
J7 |
| 2005 |
| 159 |
HA |
| 2006 |
| 160 |
HI |
| 161 |
C3 |
| 162 |
V4 |
| 163 |
VP2V |
| 164 |
YU6 |
| 165 |
VP5 |
| 166 |
CO |
| 2007 |
| 167 |
HV |
| 168 |
V2 |
| 169 |
PJ7 |
| 170 |
VP2E |
| 171 |
J8 |
| 172 |
1A |
| 173 |
TK |
| 2008 |
| 174 |
CY0 |
| 175 |
ZF |
| 176 |
FJ |
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